Touched
Mad people were once said to be touched by God; their sixth sense was a blessing that brought them closer to the mysteries of the world. Only in recent times have people been locked away or medicated for their "illness". Somehow as society modernized passion became dangerous, something to fear, something threatening to the complacent and the status quo.
Ivo says the energy at the core of the universe manifests itself in different ways, sometimes in the passionate nature of animals, sometimes in the ecstasy of man. He says only when that energy becomes dangerous for the tribe is it put down – the young stallion chased from the herd for threatening to divide and thereby weaken it.
For all his words of wisdom, he was very closed-minded. I couldn't confess to him what I saw. The energy at the core of the universe was a scientific fact; spirits from the afterlife a human construct. Those things were a throwback to the unenlightened era when man followed the pseudosciences of astrology and divination.
I wondered what he would say if I showed him Danny's note.
The one he wrote this morning.